in this lecture we looked at photography mainly and the ways in which the adoption of new technologies and the development of the digital has created new possibilities for photography.
there is now much debate surrounding the authenticity of many images, and the nature of any intervention from the author/photographer. images cease to be a stable and accurate representation of reality due to things such as photo-shop, and other digital programmes.
the sophistication of such things means an image can be manipulated and distorted without it ever being obvious to the human eye.
are we now entering a "post-photographic" world?
with mass ownership of digital cameras, even the hit and miss nature of the snap shot is disappearig and being replaced with a disposable culture, where an image anything other than "perfect" is thrown away.
are we now faced with a false representation of reality? will digital artists develop a new aesthetic, or will we never be able to distinguish the reworked form the real?